Bloomberg Data Workflows

Bloomberg Data Workflows covers the programmatic paths institutional clients use to move Bloomberg's financial data into their own systems: the Data License API, which delivers reference, pricing, regulatory and alternative data in bulk or per security over a JWT-authenticated REST/hypermedia endpoint at api.bloomberg.com/eap, over SFTP, or natively into the major cloud providers; and the Server API (SAPI), the shared-server deployment of BLPAPI that serves real-time subscription and historical request/response market data to applications across a firm. Both are gated behind an active Bloomberg Professional or Enterprise agreement. Bloomberg ships first-party BLPAPI SDKs for C++, Java, C# (.NET) and Python from its own distribution hosts, but publishes no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL schema or MCP server for either API, and keeps the API reference behind the DATA customer portal.

Bloomberg Data Workflows publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Enterprise Data, Financial Analytics, Financial-Services, Investment Management, and Market Data.

Bloomberg Data Workflows’ developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, API reference, support, CLI, authentication, changelog, and 21 more developer resources.

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36.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

2 APIs

Enterprise Data Financial Analytics Financial-Services Investment Management Market Data Reference Data Trading

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 36.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.7 / 17

Access Clarity 6.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 11.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bloomberg Data License API

Batch and per-security delivery of Bloomberg's reference, pricing, regulatory and alternative data for integration into proprietary applications and workflows. The REST / hyperm...

Bloomberg SAPI (Server API)

The shared-server deployment of BLPAPI, providing real-time subscription and historical request/response market data to applications across a firm. SAPI is not an HTTP API: clie...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bloomberg Data Workflows Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bloomberg Data Workflows Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Bloomberg Data Workflows Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bloomberg Data Workflows Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Bloomberg Data Workflows Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Bloomberg Data Workflows Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Bloomberg Data Workflows Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

OAuthScopes

SecurityTxt

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bloomberg-data-workflows
name: Bloomberg Data Workflows
description: 'Bloomberg Data Workflows covers the programmatic paths institutional clients use to move Bloomberg''s financial
  data into their own systems: the Data License API, which delivers reference, pricing, regulatory and alternative data in
  bulk or per security over a JWT-authenticated REST/hypermedia endpoint at api.bloomberg.com/eap, over SFTP, or natively
  into the major cloud providers; and the Server API (SAPI), the shared-server deployment of BLPAPI that serves real-time
  subscription and historical request/response market data to applications across a firm. Both are gated behind an active
  Bloomberg Professional or Enterprise agreement. Bloomberg ships first-party BLPAPI SDKs for C++, Java, C# (.NET) and Python
  from its own distribution hosts, but publishes no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL schema or MCP server for either API, and keeps
  the API reference behind the DATA <GO> customer portal.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: contract
  onboarding: sales
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise contract
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-license/
  generated: '2026-08-27'
  method: searched
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bloomberg-data-workflows.png
tags:
- Enterprise Data
- Financial Analytics
- Financial-Services
- Investment Management
- Market Data
- Reference Data
- Trading
tags_raw:
- Enterprise Data
- Financial Analytics
- Financial Services
- Investment Management
- Market Data
- Reference Data
- Trading
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bloomberg-data-workflows/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-08-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: bloomberg-data-workflows:bloomberg-data-license-api
  name: Bloomberg Data License API
  description: Batch and per-security delivery of Bloomberg's reference, pricing, regulatory and alternative data for integration
    into proprietary applications and workflows. The REST / hypermedia entry point is https://api.bloomberg.com/eap/; every
    request must carry a signed JWT (RFC 7519) issued against the customer's Data License credential file. The same content
    is also delivered over SFTP and natively into the major cloud providers.
  humanURL: https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-license/
  baseURL: https://api.bloomberg.com/eap
  tags:
  - Financial Data
  - Market Data
  - Pricing
  - Reference Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bloomberg-data-workflows-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bloomberg-data-workflows-problem-types.yml
- aid: bloomberg-data-workflows:bloomberg-server-api
  name: Bloomberg SAPI (Server API)
  description: 'The shared-server deployment of BLPAPI, providing real-time subscription and historical request/response market
    data to applications across a firm. SAPI is not an HTTP API: clients open a TCP session with the BLPAPI SDK against the
    customer''s own Server API host (the Desktop API equivalent is localhost:8194), so no public base URL exists. Identity
    is the firm''s Bloomberg entitlements, not a token.'
  humanURL: https://professional.bloomberg.com/products/data/data-connectivity/server-api/
  tags:
  - Historical Data
  - Market Data
  - Real-Time Data
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
  - type: SDKs
    url: packages/bloomberg-data-workflows-packages.yml
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/bloomberg/
  name: Bloomberg
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: bloomberg-family:2026-08-27
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.bloomberg.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/api-library/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://bloomberg.github.io/blpapi-docs/
- type: Support
  url: https://professional.bloomberg.com/support/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bloomberg
- type: Login
  url: https://bba.bloomberg.net/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/tos/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/privacy/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/bloomberg-data-workflows-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/bloomberg-data-workflows-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/bloomberg-data-workflows-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bloomberg-data-workflows-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/bloomberg-data-workflows-scopes.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/bloomberg-data-workflows-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bloomberg-data-workflows-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bloomberg-data-workflows-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bloomberg-data-workflows-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/bloomberg-data-workflows-changelog.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/bloomberg-data-workflows-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/bloomberg-data-workflows-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: https://www.bloomberg.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bloomberg-data-workflows-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bloomberg-data-workflows-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bloomberg-data-workflows-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bloomberg-data-workflows-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bloomberg-data-workflows-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bloomberg-data-workflows-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1
x-parent: bloomberg
x-relationship: product

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